Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1912 — GRADING TO COMMENCE ON INTERURBAN NEXT WEEK [ARTICLE]

GRADING TO COMMENCE ON INTERURBAN NEXT WEEK

Job Hack, of Lowell, Takes Contract to Grade Four Miles—Must Be Finished This Fall ——— «• . John Hack, of Lowell, was in town today and confirmed the rumor that he had’ been awarded the contract for the grading of tmx miles of the Indiana & Northwestern Traction Co.'s interurban road in this township. He stated that he had thoroughly investigated the financial condition of the backers of the road and being satisfied of their reliability would begin work next week.

He will put a force of fifteen or twenty teams and scrapers at work next week and expects to make rapid progress. He will begin at the south Marion township line and work toward Rensselaer, completing his portion of the work at the corporation line north of St Joseph’s college, where the track will follow College avenue to Washington street and will probably continue from there on north across the river at the creamery bridge. A bridge will be build across the Big Slough yet this fall. . bhief Engineer Wilson and Eugene Purtelle, who have been here two or three weeks making the final survey, have fitted up offices in the Roth building and it is stated that they will soon have a force of stenographers and engineers at work on profiles, etc. They state that from now on the work will be pushed as rapidly as the weather and circumstances permit